Landis Brown Farm & Banks Farm: Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian, Alabama
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Testudines
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Toxochelys moorevillensis
Zangerl 1953
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Zangerl 1953 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Protostegidae
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Protostega dixie
Zangerl 1953
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= Protostega gigas
Cope 1871
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Shimada and Hooks 2004 | |||||||||
Includes FMNH P27452, disarticulated bones of a partial skeleton, left humerus and left hyoplastron show shark bites; PR58, three peripheral bones with shark bites | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Pachycormiformes
- Pachycormidae
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Protosphyraena sp.
Leidy 1857
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Applegate 1970 | |||||||||
sp. 3 | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Crossognathiformes
- Pachyrhizodontidae
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Pachyrhizodus caninus
Cope 1872
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Applegate 1970 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Ptychodontidae
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Ptychodus polygyrus
Agassiz 1835
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Applegate 1970 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon
(Agassiz 1843)
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Applegate 1970 | |||||||||
recombined as Lamna raphiodon | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax falcatus
(Agassiz 1843)
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Applegate 1970 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Chimaeriformes
- Edaphodontidae
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Edaphodon mirificus
Leidy 1856
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Applegate 1970 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Alabama | County: | Greene |
Coordinates: | 32.8° North, 87.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.4° North, 59.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Santonian - Early/Lower Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 85.80000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Selma | Formation: | Mooreville Chalk |
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 81931 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, R. Benson | Enterer: | M. Uhen, R. Benson |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-07-18 14:45:53 | Last modified: | 2014-05-05 12:47:56 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-07-18 14:45:53 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
786. | R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part III. The turtles of the family Protostegidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(3):63-133 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
27582 | S. P. Applegate. 1970. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes. Fieldiana: Geology Memoires 3(8):385-433 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham] | |
27686 | P. C. Gill, G. J. B. Ross, W. H. Dawbin and H. Wapstgra. 2000. Confirmed sightings of dusky dolphins (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) in southern Australian waters. Marine Mammal Science 16(2):452-459 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
42113 | K. Shimada and G. E. Hooks III. 2004. Shark-bitten protostegid turtles from the Upper Cretaceous Mooreville Chalk, Alabama. Journal of Paleontology 78(1):205-210 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
787 | R. Zangerl. 1953. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part IV. The turtles of the family Toxochelyidae. Fieldiana: Geology Memoirs 3(4):145-277 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Mannion] |